Re: Hiding a Make function

[AB]

The variable LIST holds a list of files based on which we will be
generating a few other files. For efficiency, we would like this list to be
explicit, instead of it being created using wildcard/scanning the disk. I
would like to have a mechansim that enforces this paradigm, by erroring out
on usage of wildcard to create LIST.

Thanks

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Lane Schwartz <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 3:41 PM, AB <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Hi:
>> I wanted to see if we have a way to hide/error out usage of a make
>> function like "wildcard' in a specific Makefile. For example, I would
>> like to have the following behavior from test.mk:
>>
>> %< %< %< %< %< %< %< %< %< %< %< %< %< %< %< %< %< %<
>>
>> #Error out if wildcard is used in "test.mk"
>> LIST := $(wildcard *.txt)
>>
>> #test.mk includes foo.mk, which can use wildcard
>> include foo.mk
>>
>> %< %< %< %< %< %< %< %< %< %< %< %< %< %< %< %< %< %<
>>
>> Any comments on how this can be achieved.
>>
>
> I doubt this is possible. What is the motivation behind this?
>
> Lane
>
>